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The shooting of Jacob Blake on August 23 sparked protests in a number of American cities, mostly within Kenosha. [78] Two protesters were shot and killed in an incident during the protests. [79] Nationally, athletes from the NHL, NBA, WNBA, MLB, and MLS began going on strike in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake. [80]
Victor, Orville J. History Of American Conspiracies: A Record Of Treason, Insurrection, Rebellion, &c. In The United States Of America. From 1760 To 1860 (1863) online, entertaining but outdated; Waskow, Arthur I. From Race Riot to Sit-In, 1919 and the 1960s: A Study in the Connections Between Conflict and Violence. (Doubleday, 1966).
The right to assemble is recognized as a human right and protected in the First Amendment of the US Constitution under the clause, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of ...
The modern opioid crisis started in the 1990s, when drug companies began marketing prescription opioids such as Purdue's OxyContin (oxycodone) for pain management while understating their ...
Occupy Wall Street in New York City, 2011. Protests after the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts; 2015 Armenian March for Justice; Anti-nuclear protests in the United States; Bonus Army; Deaf President Now; Freedom Sunday for Soviet Jews; San Francisco tech bus protests; Guantanamo Bay hunger strikes; John Sinclair Freedom Rally; March for ...
Rhode Island is America’s ‘Pothole State’ First, we figured out the number of pothole-themed tweets from every area in the U.S. over the course of a year. Then we figured the total road ...
This is a list of protests in the 21st century. Georgian colour revolution , named Rose revolution . Mass demonstrations in Avenue Habib Bourguiba during the Tunisian revolution that overthrew the regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on 14 January 2011.
American families are still struggling to dig out from under credit card debt, and a new study from credit reporting agency Equifax (EFX) says that households in some metropolitan areas owe as ...